Hi! I'm Ash Wolf (or Ninji), a 27-year-old software developer from Gibraltar and living in Glasgow, Scotland. I like reverse-engineering, old technology, graphic design, awful jokes, public transport, cities, travel and combinations of some of those things.
I recently graduated from Computer Science at the University of Strathclyde. I used to moonlight as lead programmer for the MMO Furcadia, and I've made/worked on a lot of other silly things. Some are listed on the Creations page, some are documented in blog posts.
Find me elsewhere: Twitter (@_Ninji), GitHub (@Treeki), or email me: ninji@wuffs.org
Like my stuff? Feel free to send me a pound or two: PayPal.me | Ko-fi | Monzo (UK)
Recent Posts
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Experimenting with AI Dungeon
A conversation about the silly "I made a bot read 1000 pages of X and then write Y" viral posts made me wonder... how much sense and coherence can you get out of a model like AI Dungeon's if you just let it generate text, without cherry-picking 'good' examples? I asked it to simulate an extremely unrealistic scenario which has never occurred in the real world - a train in the UK being cancelled at the last minute.
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Reviving Yahoo! PageBuilder in 2020
Anybody who used GeoCities in the early 2000s probably remembers using PageBuilder, the strange Java drag-and-drop interface that you would launch from your browser. I wanted to try it out again, but GeoCities is long gone. That's not stopping me, though...
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Researching the Digitime Tech FOTA Backdoors
An investigation into the shady stuff going on behind Digitime Tech's FOTA update service, as seen on Planet Computers's Android devices and on other low-budget Android hardware.
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"16 Shades of Grey" - Building a Psion/EPOC32 Emulator
In which I build WindEmu, an emulator for the Psion Series 5mx (a PDA from 1999 running EPOC - the OS that would become Symbian), over the course of just over a week, without access to the actual hardware. Yet another cursed project.
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Pulling apart the Cosmo's SystemFOTA updater
I recently got a Cosmo Communicator from Planet Computers, the device that's basically the unholy offspring of a Psion Series 5mx and a no-name Android smartphone. The hardware is pretty nice (although it's held back in some aspects by their obvious lack of budget, as a niche manufacturer), but th...
